I wasn’t that surprised to see it in The Columbian, but I was disgusted that even the hosts on KPOJ have been referring to the Earth Liberation Front wackos who torched those McMansions up in Woodinville as terrorists.
E.L.F.’s actions are doomed to failure: burning a few model homes won’t stop sprawl or conspicuous consumption, any [...]
MOGADISHU, Somalia: U.S. naval forces fired missiles into southern Somalia on Monday, aiming at what the Defense Department called terrorist targets.
Residents and the police in the southern town of Dobley said a home had been destroyed and at least eight people, including four children, seriously injured. The U.S. has carried out strikes in Somalia in [...]
February 27, 2008 – 12:55 pm
Noam Chomsky reverses a paradigm:
The more vulgar apologists for U.S. and Israeli crimes solemnly explain that, while Arabs purposely kill people, the U.S. and Israel, being democratic societies, do not intend to do so. Their killings are just accidental ones, hence not at the level of moral depravity of their adversaries. That was, for example, [...]
February 21, 2008 – 9:17 am
The Commerce Department has been forced by Judicial Watch to turn over records of spring, 2001 meetings held between Dick Cheney and execs from global oil giants, records that suggest that the group decided months before September 11th that the US energy policy would center on taking control of Iraq’s oil:
In [...]
February 19, 2008 – 9:37 am
…it’s time to scare you with trains:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Amtrak will start randomly screening passengers’ carry-on bags this week in a new security push that includes officers with automatic weapons and bomb-sniffing dogs patrolling platforms and trains.
The initiative, to be announced by the railroad on Tuesday, is a significant shift for Amtrak. Unlike the airlines, [...]
February 12, 2008 – 2:01 pm
I was up most of the night with L., who is in the midst of his first unresponsive-to-medication migraine. Three Tylenol 3s and 6 ibuprofen later, and he’s just comfortable enough to veg out on the sofa watching The Cat Returns.
So, I took this morning off, and J. took off this afternoon so he [...]
February 8, 2008 – 7:40 am
Who runs Bartertown?:
The FBI Deputizes Business
Today, more than 23,000 representatives of private industry are working quietly with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The members of this rapidly growing group, called InfraGard, receive secret warnings of terrorist threats before the public does—and, at least on one occasion, before elected officials. In return, they [...]
January 14, 2008 – 11:44 am
It seems Dear Leader took his trip to the Middle East not so much to persuade the Israelis and Palestinians to make nice, but to ramp up his threats toward Iran.
First, we had the Tonkin on the Hormuz “they’re attacking the fleet!” bullshit. Then there was Bush’s one and only big speech over there [...]
January 11, 2008 – 4:07 pm
The ACLU is hosting Close Guantanamo Day today; please write your congressperson and Senators - and even your presidential candidate - and demand that this insult to human rights and democracy be closed forever.
I am in the middle of reading The Eight O’Clock Ferry to the Windward Side by human rights attorney Clive Stafford Smith [...]
December 31, 2007 – 10:20 am
Photos defy state’s version of events
THE official version of how Benazir Bhutto was killed lay in tatters last night as the Pakistani Government faced mounting demands, led by the US, for a full investigation.
The Government’s claims that she died from massive brain damage sustained when she smashed her head against the sunroof of the Toyota [...]
December 28, 2007 – 12:07 pm
Dick Cheney is the original bad penny. If anything, anywhere in the world, is fucked up, it’s guaranteed to have his bloody paw prints all over it. From the WaPo via Digby:
The roots of the crisis go back to the blind bargain Washington made after 9/11 with the regime that had heretofore been [...]
December 27, 2007 – 9:31 am
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — The Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated near the capital, Islamabad, on Thursday. Witnesses said Ms. Bhutto, who was appearing at a political rally, was fired upon by a gunman at close range, quickly followed by a blast that the government said was caused by a suicide attacker.
Ms. Bhutto, a former [...]
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